{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-companies-regulations-2009/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1801",
  "legislation_title": "The Overseas Companies Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-companies-regulations-2009",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The credit reference agency has delivered to the registrar a statement that it intends to use that protected information only for the purposes of—\n(a) providing an assessment of the financial standing of a person;\n(b) meeting any obligations contained in the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 or any rules made pursuant to section 137A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 which relate to the prevention and detection of money laundering in connection with the carrying on of regulated activities by authorised persons...\n(c) conducting conflict of interest checks required or made necessary by any enactment;\n(d) the provision of protected information to—\n(i) a person to whom the registrar could disclose information under section 1110F (disclosure by the registrar) of the Companies Act 2006; or\n(ii) a credit reference agency which has satisfied the requirements of this Part of this Schedule; or\n(e) conducting checks for the prevention and detection of crime and fraud.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 7(b) substituted (26.6.2017) by The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/692), reg. 1(2), Sch. 7 para. 26(a) (with regs. 8, 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 7(b) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/472), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 173(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 7(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Companies, Limited Liability Partnerships and Partnerships (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/348), reg. 2, Sch. 2 para. 8(c) (with Sch. 4 para. 5) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 20); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7(d)(i) substituted (21.3.2024) by The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Provisions) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/410), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(7)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1801/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:09:25.534787+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}